A project 10 years in the making opened up this Sunday. The brand new Chabad House, for UVa students and the Charlottesville community, opened with the Shluchim celebrating their three year old sons upshernish.
Hope turned to deeper mourning today after a baby delivered by C-section following a horrific hit-and-run crash in Williamsburg died one day after his parents.
A song about a girl, who is being influenced negatively but does not yield – since she is the daughter of a king, the daughter of g-d, came to life today in a video shoot. The song is called Beautiful by Shneur ‘Describe’ Hasofer.
Many of the 5 pre-1A classes in Oholei Torah celebrated their Annual Siddur Party this Sunday. Rabbis Yossi Goldstein, Eliyahu Eidelman and Chaim Zaetz each prepared their class, and joined in the talmidim’s celebration, along with the parents, Bubbehs and Zeidas and other extended family.
Eli Uminer (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Kalmenson (Paris, France)
Dovid Parshan (Toronto, Ontario) and Elisheva Newman (Long Beach, CA)
A new and exciting Tehillim is due to be published by Kol Menachem. It will bear the name of the Schottenstein families who have thrown their financial support behind the venture.
At age 79, Patti Anouchi has a new career: mentor to soon-to-be released Jewish inmates. Actually, Anouchi is a volunteer, but she’s taking this work as seriously as she did her former career as counselor to domestic violence victims.
A reader shared this cell phone picture of nearly a dozen hats piled up on a table in 770 and asked “can you find your hat?”
Recently the 8th Day performed at the new Gourmet Glatt supermarket in Boro Park, there one vlogger caught up with drummer Rosy Rosenquist, who shared a story of how an oil change lead to him taking a job with the popular band.
Over the past week there has been an outpouring of support from all over the world, for 9 year old Matthew Harms who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Chaim Dovid and Rivky (nee Wachtel) Jenkelowitz (Crown Heights)
Sroli Matusof (Madison, WI) and Raizy Laine (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg, 57, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Harlem and the driving force behind that area’s Jewish revival, was remembered as a dynamic, energetic leader who believed that he could do what many saw as impossible: Gather every Jew in Harlem and bring them under the roof of Judaism.
Nachmen and Raizy Glauber, a young Jewish Orthodox couple from Williamsburg, en route to a hospital to have their first child were killed in a car crash early Sunday, but their child survived.
Zevi and Adina (nee Druin) Slavin (Toronto, Ontario)
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